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17000000 Deaths per billion flights for the space shuttle is not safe. This is more than 2,000 times more dangerous than skydiving, which is also not very safe.
by pama 3y ago
17000000 Deaths per billion flights for the space shuttle is not safe. This is more than 2,000 times more dangerous than skydiving, which is also not very safe.
- ddeck 3y agoIt was significantly worse than that. There were 2 failures over a total of 135 flights, with 14 fatalities. So that's about 103 fatalities per 1000 flights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
- HPsquared 3y agoI think it's "passenger fatalities per passenger-journey". So need to multiply the number of flights by the crew on each.
- ddeck 3y agoRight you are, which brings us back to the ~1.7% number (actually 1.6% if you include the STS-135 mission, which Wikipedia doesn't for unknown reasons). So a 1 in ~60 chance of dying on any given flight...have to agree that that is far from safe.